Hybrid Travel Accounting Analyst

at Aflac

• Job title: Travel Accounting Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $60,000 - $75,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Columbus, United States

About the role

• Accounting Analyst role at Aflac responsible for travel and entertainment processing. Ensuring card compliance and providing timely support to cardholders while maintaining operating procedures.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to established guidelines for the assignment of new Aflac T&E Credit cards; assigns appropriate credit limits based on requestors position or required authorized approvals
• Responsible for canceling cards for employees based on employment status, outstanding balance resolution, fraudulent activity, and other identified reasons
• Provides timely cardholder support to resolve credit limit and spending block issues, password resets, payment declination research, and other account issues
• Ensures card account profiles are up to date
• Investigates past due accounts to reconcile and notify card holder, managers and HR
• Creates and reviews reports to monitor compliance; analyze card spend data to mitigate high-risk, non-compliant purchases to support and increase customers awareness of program’s policy and process procedures
• Conducts audits and review employee system access, merchant category codes, unused credit cards and make recommendations for changes support; proactively develop/enhance program controls to mitigate risks or fraudulent activities; actively participate in process improvement projects related to the card programs
• Creates and maintains standard operating procedures and process flows; develop training materials; provide overview and training sessions for new card holders or review sessions for employee as needed
• Provides travel accounting services for the organization; advises on policies, procedures and regulatory requirements related to travel, meetings, and expenses; maintains, monitors, and audits the activity of assigned department accounts
• Uses in-depth knowledge of department tasks, process flows, and interaction or relationships between accounts to identify and resolve discrepancies, transaction and/or system errors, questionable transactions, potential fraud activity, etc., or requests corrective action from the appropriate team member or department
• Extracts, compiles, and formats a variety of information to create reports for management
• Performs other related special projects and duties as required

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field
• Three years of job-related work experience performing duties such as travel and entertainment processing, accounts payable, general ledger account reconciliation or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Business analysis experience (including implementation, tracking, problem resolution and reporting) preferred
• Strong personal computer skills with experience in Windows-based software; experience using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
• Ability to develop clear action plans and drive processes with numerous interdependencies
• Ability to understand the impact of operational initiatives
• Ability to organize and evaluate office procedures and create processes to manage workflow

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Prescription drug coverage
• Health care flexible spending
• Dependent care flexible spending
• Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
• 401(k) plans
• Annual bonuses
• Opportunity to purchase company stock
• 11 paid holidays
• Up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
• State-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked) and other leaves of absence